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At SAP, software developer Kagermann prepares to hand off the CEO job to salesman Apotheker.
The handover has fed an irresistible narrative in financial markets: the software egghead who shoveled cash in....

The Olympics are over, but China's influence in the global business world is growing. See why. Jim Yardley had a great analysis piece in Sunday's New York Times about the Olympic impact on China. One nota....

Well, it's been three days since I blogged about a big, scary IT problem for the federal government, so I guess it's time to go again: "The government's main terrorist-watch-list system is hobbled by techn....

"We think this is the way the future is going to work," said Kyle Dickson, co-director of research and the mobile learning initiative at Abilene Christian University in Texas, which has bought more than 60....

"Information-technology leaders at midsize companies say they could compete with bigger companies, if only they had more money. And staff. And the freedom to focus on long-term projects."
That's how WSJ s....

A discussion in the comments at Slashdot about this post, and the Perl programming language.
Before you click away in less time than it takes to think "I pay people to worry about this kind of stuff," cons....

An interesting look at India's tech industry, which is experiencing a slowdown in its rate of growth.
Some of the factors are (we hope) relatively short-term problems, including the woes of the global fi....

It's no surprise when a big federal IT project drags on forever and fails to work as promised.
In the case of the White House email system, vital records have been lost, and with them insight into key chap....

Quality control (and customer service) questions for a couple of names known for cutting-edge tech, Nvidia and Apple.
Nvidia's problems are specific, and the company says it's addressed them, even if some....

The bottom-line impact of Verizon's fiber-to-the-home strategy remains to be seen.
But connectivity at the very edges of the internet is a serious issue. Whether Verizon makes money or not, the last-mile ....

My friend came back from Ireland and lamented the weakness of the dollar in Europe. I noted that the greenback isn't doing so well at home, either. Which reminds me:
Tech spending is projected to rise sma....

NBC is having a great run with its coverage of the Olympics, and it's interesting to see the success of a mass-market event on broadcast television in the age of the Long Tail.
When you think about it, t....

A must-read article by Ethan Zuckerman on the "cyberwar" against Georgia.
What's frightening about the online attacks against Georgia is not that they're organized by shadowy Krelmin forces, but that the....